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No, you cannot claim the recovery rebate credit. You received the stimulus payment, and you used the money to pay child support that you owed. It's the same as if they had sent you a check for the stimulus payment and you then wrote a check for child support. The fact that you were forced to use it for child support does not change the fact that you received the stimulus payment.